The Graham Norton Show S33E15 ｜ Idris Elba, Martin Freeman & Olivia Dean

I sense an excitement in the air and I think I know why. The Traitors is hotting up, is it not? I think we'll be watching. I have to say, I'm loving it. My favourite moment of the week had to be Harriet. Here she is, writer of psychological thrillers, former barrister, minding a steel trap, playing the game brilliantly. What would her next genius move be? Asking to be banished. I've got a line-up for you tonight, singing for us later. Look over there, it's Olivia Deane! First on my sofa tonight, this actor made us laugh as Tim in The Office won a BAFTA, playing Dr Watson in Sherlock, and wowed critics in hit shows like Fargo and gritty police drama The Responder. Now he's hot on the case in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, it's Mr Martin Freeman! Low-key, her latest film, Sinners, was one of the biggest box office hits of 2025. It's Woomy Masako! She stole the show as Princess Anne in The Crown and as the therapist Briony in the global hit Adolescence. Now she's back with another knockout series of A Thousand Blows, it's a first-time welcome to Erin Doherty! As drug kingpin Stringer Bell in The Wire, before changing sides as maverick detective Luther. Since then, he's become a big-screen Hollywood star, while also campaigning to support young people and combat knife crime, for which he was knighted in the New Year's Honours. Now he's having a spot of train trouble in the new series of Hijack, it is Sir Idris Elba! Good to see you all! Martin tried to kiss me just then, just so you know. Show business, show business! You're not the first knight I've had that with. And actually, is that the first time you've been introduced as Sir Idris Elba? Yes. Oh, wow, exciting! Actually, the honours keep coming because, Erin Doherty, you've got a brand-new Golden Globe, it's still hot! So when did you get it? Did you just fly straight back? Yeah, so we literally flew in, got in on Tuesday, and then popped it up on the bookshelf and watched TV, and then it's just up there. Yeah, I'm a winner, baby. Yeah, it's pretty nice. And now, your Emmy speech, that got you in trouble with your mother. Yeah. So basically, obviously, the time delay, we got back after the Emmys and I, like, FaceTimed my sister, and my mum just happened to be there and we were all, like, cheering. But she just butted her head in and was like, can I just say, she was very serious, I could have done without the swearing. And I was like, what's going on? I had the trophy in my hand, I was like, mum, this is a thing! And she was like, yeah, great, well done. Could have done without the swearing. I was like... Did you swear? Yeah, so I didn't mean it. Well, I didn't mean to, I just... What was the words? I think I just called everyone, like, ******* stunning or something. I was like, you got us good! I was like, Cate Blanchett's right there. I was like, she's ******* stunning. I just said it. And anyway, so I had words with my mum and she was like, OK, but if you get up on stage again, you can't swear. And I was like, OK, I'll make you a promise. I've just made you do it again, as well. I did it again. Don't go, you did it again. I did it again. Did you? I did it again. I couldn't help myself. What was the words? What the ****. It gets bigger. I'm telling you now, if you all were in that situation, you would be screaming, what the ****. And, Wunmi, you were there. I was. Looking radiant in yellow. There you are. And I think you used the red carpet to make an announcement? I was tired of hiding. And I was like, it's time to let the bump out. Let's just be real in the moment and really enjoy it fully, both of us, you know? Well, congratulations to you. Very good. You and Aaron are kind of brand new friends. You met this weekend. We were matching. That is weird, you dressed together. It wasn't on purpose. It's just we're just in tune now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we've been together, like, the last couple of weeks, doing all the awards stuff. And it's been so lovely having someone from home and just, like, someone we can just talk about real-life stuff together. Yeah, we really got into it. We really got into it. We kind of, like, didn't speak to anyone else at this, like, big dinner. She knows all of my deepest, darkest secrets. I know all of hers. It was great. Really? Yeah. I'm an oversharer, so. Oh. We just kind of got on. Yeah, so it's been lovely. So some people enjoy the whole award show thing. Martin, am I right that you used to enjoy the award show thing? Well, I think when you... The first time you're on a red carpet, it is a novelty. It's fun, you know, because you haven't done that before. The excitement of it is good. I think, you know, it's sort of... I think if you're still really into it the 15th time, then good luck to you. Like, it's very... It's, like, it's genuinely an honour getting nominated for something. Like, I am... I'll never blasé about it. I'm deeply honoured to be nominated for anything. But, um... What, who's laughing? I've been ******* nominated. Don't you worry about that. No, no, I think it's just a bit of an assault on your nervous system after a while, you know, because it's not normal for mammals to be on a place and people screaming at you and lights going off and all that sort of mania and hullabaloo is not normal. And so somewhere deep in your body, you're going, this is not right somehow. And so all the kind of, hmm, all of that, it's all acting. You know, that's the most I've ever acted. There should be awards for that. There should be awards for that, yeah. Talking of honours, not just the knighthood interest, you also got a rare honour. You have become a figure at Madame Tussauds. Oh! Now, often when we show, you know, figures from these museums around the world, they're laughably bad. This is so good. Like, you can hardly tell the difference. Here they are. That's amazing, isn't it? My wax face is a bit squashed, isn't it? I have to admit, it's a little bit. Your eyes are a little bit bigger. Yeah. I think I was laughing more in the picture than... It's really good. It is really good. It was freaky, I ain't going to lie. Isn't there a thing where you held your phone up to the wax? Yeah, no, that's the first thing I did. I was like, this has got... There's no way it's going to recognise me on my phone. Bing! Opened it, I was like, oh. Oh, it did? Oh, that's pretty dark. I called my mum and I was like, all right, let me see what happens here. And I put the phone in. I was like, all right, mum. She's like, hi, I can see you. Why aren't you talking? I said, I am talking. My middle name's Akuna. She's like, Akuna, what are you doing? And I flipped the phone. She's like, oh my god. She couldn't believe it. Wow. Did you donate the suit? I did, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, the journey of the wax works is that they take a picture of you and then you go and you get scanned naked. Weird. Naked? Well, you stand there and they scan you. In your pants? In your underpants. Oh, I thought... Even the queen stood there in a vest. Really? Yeah. You're going to show us a picture of that? No. She didn't schlep to Madame Tussauds. They went to her. OK. Still in a vest. Well, I schlepped in my underpants. And yeah, and then that was, I'm not lying, 14 months ago. And then when they were ready to go and they were like, OK, are you happy with this? And I saw the suit and I was like, I don't really wear that suit no more. They were like, what? I was like, can I change the suit? And they were like, OK, what do you want to wear? So I sent this suit in. And this is a suit I wore. Well, it's a version of a suit I wore when I met the king. And we took some young people to Clarence's house and I wore a suit like that. Congratulations. Very good. OK. I guess there's a lot to talk about tonight. Idris Elba brings us a new season of his hit thriller Hijack. It's out now on Apple TV. Now, after Series 1, where you were on the plane, presumably you thought, I won't be doing another series of that. Yeah, I mean, where do we go now? That was the question. And honestly, you know, the show was called Hijack. It was on the nose. I was like, people aren't going to buy into this. It's fun, but they're going to buy into it. And then they did. Then we had to do it again. So we had to figure out what to hijack next. So if people didn't see Series 1, so tell us about your character. So I play Sam Nelson, who is a business negotiator. He's a closer. He comes in, closes deals. He's in a rocky marriage, and he's on his way back to London, where he lives, and his wife has sort of moved on, but he doesn't know that yet. Now, I don't want to, no spoilers. Has everyone seen it? I have. Yeah, no, no one's seen it. Great, thank you very much. This is Season 2. Somebody watch Season 1. No one's seen it. They didn't make it as a favor. So he's on this flight back to London from Dubai to save his marriage, and he gets hijacked. And he really wants to save his marriage. And so what does he do? He uses his negotiative skills to, you know, tilt the hijackers down. And this time, you're in Berlin. Yeah, so once the plane lands... What do I do? Holiday. No, he doesn't do that. Well, actually, what we did was, you know, it was really difficult. The show was a big hit, even though no one here saw it. It was a big hit for Apple, at least. And... We loved it. Oh, thank you. Absolutely loved it. Yeah. No, it is, you know, it's good old-fashioned thrillers-type stuff. But what we decided to do is not hijack something else, but continue Sam's story. We asked ourselves, what would naturally happen next? And what with Sam being who he is, he wanted to understand who hijacked the plane and why, and what do they do next? And that's how we end up in Berlin on a train. All right, we've got a clip. This is you as Sam Nelson trying to take control of the train. Don't go fast, slow down. Slow down. One of the things about this show that made it such a success is that thing of just the production values are movie quality. It's like watching a kind of a really long movie. No, it was, I mean, the first season of Hijack, we got an old plane and put it in a studio and basically, you know, used an old fuselage. And in this season, we basically built three subway stations in Dagenham, actually, yeah. Anyone from Dagenham? Yep, OK. Anyone from Berlin? They're at home watching the first season. We couldn't get to Berlin, so we went to Dagenham, which seems like an obvious choice. Yeah. But also for you, a kind of homecoming. Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm from East London, and my dad worked at Ford's for about 25 years, which is in Dagenham. And when I decided to be an actor, my dad got me a job at Ford's. You know. Because he didn't think I'd be very good, so I ended up in two years of night work at Ford's, making cars on the line. I remember being at Dagenham, at Ford's, working the night shift and thinking, oh man, I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. Nothing wrong with that, but I just wanted to act, right? And I remember on my last night at Dagenham, I said, I'm not working. I did something really rebellious. I nicked the keys to one of the buggies, the little electric cars. I drove around at five miles an hour, all the way around. Finally, it was like five miles of factory there, so it was a really long night. I was like, I'm going to be an actor. I'm going to be an actor. And I did. I left the next day, went to New York, and the rest is history, so to speak. Were you DJing already? Yeah. So you were DJing already, and then you went to New York and worked your back. Last time we spoke, you said you listened to me on pirate radio. Yes. Did I? Yeah, Graham, no. You weren't listening to Paradise FM, I'm sure. No, I really wasn't. But literally, so what's the story you were DJing, Mark? I've always DJed since I was young. Yeah, like just when it's appropriate, when it's the right thing. But some connection to Idris, right? I've known Idris on and off for about 32, 33 years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Idris had a friend, Razak, who was in my year at Central. Anyone from Central? Yes. You went to Central? I know. Yep. So Idris would come to our parties, and he'd come to little events. So that's when I first... And he's a DJ. He was a cool kid. You're still a cool kid, but he had this little fly hat. He's DJing, playing lots of Stevie Wonder. So music could have been your life's sliding doors, and Aaron Doherty, you really could have been a footballer. Yeah, so I grew up acting and doing football. It all just happened to be on a Sunday, for whatever reason, everything just fell on a Sunday. But no, but you were really good at the football. Yeah, so I got scouted to play for Chelsea. But literally, as I did, this is why the Sunday thing was relevant, because basically my dad was having to drive me to football all over the country, and then have to drive me back to my drama club. And he just was tired. He had that conversation with me, so he was like, Aaron, you need to pick one. So I never actually got to go and play for Chelsea or do anything about it. We've got a picture of little footballing Aaron. There she is, hydrating. You know how young you are? That looks like it was 1972. It's the grade, Graham, the grade. I loved it, honestly. I genuinely had such a passion for it. Do you still play? No, I tried. Basically, even amateur teams now, they take it very seriously. And so I was pulling out of tackles because I didn't want to get injured, and be like, Aaron, go on. I was genuinely like, just not. How old were you when you had to make that little decision in your head? I was probably about 13. So it was old enough to feel like I knew myself, but young enough to not really. It didn't weigh heavily on my mind. I think I probably thought about it for an hour. Really? I loved acting. Yeah, there was something about being on stage. But Chelsea, you're terrible when it comes to acting as well. I'm a Spurs fan, so it always would have sat wrong. In terms of what they wanted to be when they were growing up, Wunmi, you wanted to be an actor from a very young age. A movie opened that world to you? Yeah, Annie. I watched Annie every single day after school. Are you exaggerating? Or did you actually watch it every day? Every single day after school, I had like 12 cartons of Long Life milk lined up, and I would drink them at certain points of the movie. I don't know why I'm so tall. The rest of my family are quite short. And I think it was that. The cartons, green cartons. And I used to watch it every single day after school. I don't know. I press play, and the tears start rolling still to this day. But then you used that film as kind of breadcrumbs to get you to where you needed to be. Yeah, so I said to my mom and my sisters, I don't want to go to do maths and economics. I just don't. I think I want to act. And they're like, OK, well, how do you do that? I don't know. Well, who do we know that acts? So we Googled the whole cast of Annie, and we just saw what each person did. And Albert Finney's from Manchester, Salford. And he went to RADA. That's the first time I ever heard of drama school. And I auditioned for RADA. And got in? And got in. Isn't that mad? Mad. It changed my whole life. Yeah. I love that film forever. Yeah, we get it. What's in the milk? Listen, you can see Idris in Hijack Season 2. It's on Apple TV right now. Very good. That was the new season of 1,000 Blows. It's available on Disney+. So 1,000 Blows, if people didn't see the first season, tell us about Mary Carr and the 40 Elephants. Yeah, so I play Mary Carr, who really existed. And the 40 Elephants really existed. So this is the first time they've been written about. Steve Knight is a legend. But yeah, he basically been hanging on to this story, trying to figure out how to get it in. And Hannah Walters went to him with a story of Hezekiah Moscow, who, again, really existed. Came over to London, wanted to be a lion tamer, but got pulled into the streets of London and became a boxer, bare knuckle boxer. But our stories entwine through Steve Knight's genius. Yeah, and I play the leader of the 40 Elephants. And this was a gang of women? A gang of only women. And there we are. The name's called 40 Elephants. Yeah, their gang is called the 40 Elephants. And yeah, it's just a gang of thieves in London. And I thought that was about Elephant and Castle, but it wasn't. No, so a lot of people think that that's how they got their name. But actually, it's because when they performed all these heists, they were really good at their jobs. Criminals. They were really good at it. But when they like... So basically, they pulled off this amazing heist, this famous heist of Harrods. And when they left, they had so many clothes on them. Like, leaving, they looked like a bunch of elephants. But that's why they're called the 40 Elephants. Caught with all those clothes on. I know, but it's a true story. It was early shoplifting. Now, they'd be all over it. Yeah, yeah. And you filmed... In the first season, you did the Harrods thing. I did. And you actually filmed in Harrods. Yeah, so we... Well, we kind of were in London. We were opposite the Carinthia. And randomly, at the time, the Jonas Brothers were staying there. And there were loads of people out there. And we were like, they're here for us. They weren't, they were just there for the Joe Brothers. Yeah, we were like, oh my God, they know about the elephant thing. Yeah, no, so we like performed it. But we were secretly trying to sneak out to see the Jonas Brothers whilst we were doing that scene. And you did learn how to pickpocket. Yes, so that was the thing. All the guys got to go to like boxing lessons. And all the girls got to go to pickpocketing lessons. And it was actually, it was really interesting. I bet it comes in handy. Well, I actually got good at it. Like, I didn't push my luck and actually try it on the tubes or anything, but you know. No, right, because you're not that personal. I'm not that personal, right, right, right. But you know, I'm actually quite good at it now. You did it on set, though. Yeah, so the whole point was that they could like literally let us, like set us free, like in big, big group scenes and just be like, go do your thing, like pickpocket these essays. And we were doing this big, like boxing scene. And the director was like, right, go do your thing. Like, they've got loads of cameras on the room. So we were like, all right, we're just going to go and pickpocket a bunch of people. And I actually was doing it, but I pickpocketed this one guy. But I pulled out this packet of biscuits. Like, he was obviously like pocketed for his break. And they were just like shortbread biscuits. I was like, these aren't, these aren't 18th century biscuits. And then I had a freak out, because I was like, oh God, what if they've got it on camera? And then I just tried to like put it up my sleeve and carry on. But I was like having a freak out that I'd ruined everything because I nicked this guy's shortbread. See, I told you it'd come in handy. Yeah, if you ever want some shortbread biscuits from an old man. We've got a clip. This is you as Mary Carr and one of your gang robbing a bank. Ah, it's Coven. Now, the number of the boxes where your items are stored. 45 and 6. Certainly. Children, what are you doing? She's got a gun. Yeah. And you've got the master key if you're going to use it. Well, while Matilda was learning the ropes, she was also learning the contents. Go. OK. Number 23, number 38, number 47 are the gold items. The pearls. One of the pleasures of this is you get to use your own voice, which you haven't really got to so far. Yeah, I actually, surprisingly, I haven't been able to. So that's been a real joy. Because, yeah, Stephen Graham, who was part of Matriarchum, is also in the show. Basically, I only found out recently when they were casting, someone mentioned my name. And he was like, what? But no, she was from The Crown. So she's not what we're looking for. And they were like, no, no, no, she's from Crawley. So, yeah. So it is funny that the way people just assume people sound the way they sound. Because your Princess Anne was amazing. But the producers of The Crown, did you ever let them know that you really sound like this? Yeah, so I actually went into my audition speaking, not like bang on the Queen's, because no one speaks like them. They'd think I was a lunatic. I went in just a little bit. So I didn't use my own voice. So actually, I just thought, well, why not? Yeah. And it worked out. No, it really worked out. And your, to my cloth ear, your Scouse accent, Martin, in The Responder was astonishing. Were Scousers very complimentary about that? They were, actually. Yeah, they were. And that's, you know, like for any actor, if you're going to do an accent, the sort of acid test is, did the people from that place buy it? And my thing was, I'll settle for not being praised as long as no one wants to kill me. As long as no one wants to ******* hurt me, then I'll think I've got away with it. And no, the people of Liverpool have been really generous about it. And the ultimate compliment, really, is when people have said, I didn't know you originally from Liverpool. That's really, really lovely. But also, what's amazing about it is, you don't do a kind of halfway house right, like you, it's a strong Scouse accent. I'm in that accent from the moment I'm picked up in the morning, to the moment I wrap in the evening. Because there's no point me thinking, I'll speak like this, and then when you want me to do the acting bit, then I'll just suddenly go into this other accent. It's too much. It's too much of a stretch. I liken it to, if you're going to run 100 metres, you stretch beforehand and you prepare yourself. You don't just put your tea down and then go. You've got to sort of be in it, because it's a muscle. It's a physical, doing an accent is a physical thing. So what happens when your mum calls? Well, no, I do, when a genuine, it's a bit embarrassing, because you don't want to be a sort of wanky actor. But when you're in your trailer, it's not a big trailer. It's got a gym. Vin Diesel's upstairs. No, so when you're having lunch or whatever, and you are still in that, it's not even about being in character. It's just about keeping that accent thing. So yeah, you are having normal life conversations still in that accent. You think, I know this might seem pretentious, but I don't want to come out of it for an hour and then have this big scene in this very different accent to mine. I hate the idea of being a year down the line watching something going, I wish I'd worked harder on that. Oh yeah, that would be a nightmare. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Aaron, very quickly, adolescence, did that happen after the first season of A Thousand Blows? After all of it. So we shot two seasons back to back of A Thousand Blows. Oh, really? Yeah, so we were on it for like a year. Really? Oh, wow. Yeah, and then Stephen reached out, yeah, around February and then we shot it in July. You say he reached out. He tried. Yeah, he tried. You were not easy to reach. I just, yeah, I ghosted him. I get really nervous. I'm that cliche, like the phone rings and I'm like, nope. I just don't pick up my phone. Oh, is it because you don't like talking on the phone? I don't know what it is, yeah. I just get a little anxious. So I know for the future. Just text me. Okay, I'll text you. But did you know it was him? Yeah, I saw his name. I know it sounds silly. Did you not think that might be work related? Then I got like voice notes from him being like, Erin, pick up your phone. Okay, and I was with my girlfriend at the time, she was round, like we were just chilling. She was like, you probably should call him. And then I did. And then they told me about adolescence and I said yes there and then. So he didn't have to wait very long. Alison, congratulations on that, Erin. And don't forget A Thousand Blows season two. That is streaming on Disney Plus right now. Very good. Wumi Misaku's brilliant film. It's Ryan Coogler's Sinners. It's available to buy or rent on Apple, Amazon and Rakuten below. This came out last year. It caused a sensation. It kind of did so well at the box office. People actually went to the cinema to see this movie. And it also, it's got legs. It's like still it. Yeah, I mean, I felt from the moment I read the first scene that I was sent from Smoking Annie that I'd never read anything as well written as well. So much heart and depth and humanity. I was just like, this is amazing. And Ryan Coogler's doing it. Trust anything that he's going to lay his hands on. And then I went to meet him on Zoom. And when he explained what the whole story really was, I was like, oh, vampire. Oh, oh, it was very like, I just didn't know how he was going to do it, but I trusted he was going to do it. And the themes and the allegories throughout the movie, I was like, oh, you're a genius. And now I can't wait. From the moment I read those seven pages, I was like, this is going to be amazing. And then I heard the full story. I was like, this guy is amazing. I went into it knowing there were vampires in it. Did you all watch it knowing there were vampires in it? I didn't know there were going to be vampires in it. Were you quite shocked when they showed it? I was surprised. Yeah, I was surprised. I was like, Sinners, OK, that's kind of our movie. What? Listen, some people won't have seen it. So if they haven't, we know there's vampires in it. Tell us about Annie and sort of her backstory and who else is in it. OK, so there are the twins, the Smokestack twins, played by Michael B. Jordan, a genius. And they come back to their hometown of Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1930s Jim Crow South of America. And they're starting this juke joint. And I'm partner to Smoke. And they've been estranged for seven years. They have this incredible love between them. And they are reunited. It's the most romantic, most, I don't know, it's just beautiful. Anyway, so Annie's this hoodoo priestess. And hoodoo is a spiritual practice. She's got this power and this connection to the ancestors and the land. And she uses roots and herbs. And she's just this powerful person who, I don't know, just exudes like love and knowledge. And they go to the juke joint. They open up. But, you know, the vampires come. And yeah, Annie's the one who's like, I know what's going on here. You guys need to listen to me. Yeah. I promise you, everybody just stay put till sunrise and we'll be good. But then. Yes. Oh, yeah. We've got a clip. This is you as Annie confronting your estranged husband, Smoke, played by Michael B. Jordan. I've seen him in ways I didn't even know was possible. I ain't never saw no roots. No demons. No ghosts. No magic. Just power. And only money can give you that. All that war and whatever the hells you've been doing in Chicago. And you back here in front of me. Two arms, two legs, two eyes and a brain that work. How you know I ain't afraid? I work every root. My grandmama taught me to keep you and that crazy brother of yours safe. Every day since you've been gone. Why those roots ain't working on baby? I don't know. But they work for you. So good. Ryan Coogler, who wrote and directed this. He's the guy behind Black Panther and Creed. He wrote this for you. I found this out on the last day. I didn't know this. So I was working on a show called We Own This City and he saw the trailer of it. And he said there was a scene. I still don't know which scene it is. He said, oh, I think that's my Annie. So then he wrote that, continued writing it with me in mind. He literally told me that on my last day when he was giving me a speech goodbye. I had no idea. I auditioned thinking, you know. But I guess the audition was like, do we like each other? Can we work with each other? But I didn't know. Yeah, it was amazing. And of course, Martin, you've worked with Ryan Coogler. He's a genius. He's lovely. Yeah, I did Black Panther and Wakanda Forever. Yeah, he's a very sweet person. And actually, did you guys all, did your paths cross in the Marvel universe? Because you're Thor, you're Loki. No, I've never. We never crossed on Marvel, did we? No. No, I'm a god, so. Different, you know, human beings. Are any of you in the new fantasy one? The one that everyone's in? Apparently not. OK. Most people are in. My character died, Graham. They all ******* die. That's no bar. Apparently in Marvel, I don't know. Woomy, it's, you are so brilliant at this. And good luck with the awards season. And if you haven't seen Sinners, I urge you to do so. Woomy Masako, everybody. Martin Freeman stars in Agatha Christie, Seven Dials. All three parts available now on Netflix. So, you know, I thought I knew Agatha Christie's work. She's so famous. I did not know Superintendent. Superintendent Battle, yeah. I didn't know these characters, because I guess in the culture, generally, we're familiar with Poirot and Miss Marple. And this was a whole other, these are sort of quite early novels of Agatha Christie's, sort of in the 20s. So it's a lesser known group of characters, I think. And Mia McKenna Bruce plays Bundle, the sort of heroine of it. Helena Bonham Carter is her mother. And that was a gender swap as well, because it was Lord Caterham, now it's Lady Caterham. And this begins with Bundle. At a party. Yeah, and there's a big party at a stately home. And Bundle, our heroine, makes googly eyes at her beau. And it looks like they're a lovely couple, who we assume are going to get together. And it all goes wrong, because... Am I allowed to say he gets killed? Yeah, he gets killed. I mean, if it's Agatha Christie, somebody gets killed. Another we might not know. This is very early Agatha Christie. There's no crime. It's more of a sort of poetic... No, yeah, he gets killed. And Bundle, our heroine, kind of is hell-bent on finding out what happened. We've got a clip. This is you as Superintendent Battle, making the acquaintance of Lady Eileen, played by Mia McKenna Bruce. This is an honour. Lady Eileen Brent. I know who I am. But who the devil are you? And why have you been following me? It's Battle. Superintendent Battle. May I provide you with some refreshment? Do you have gin? I was more envisaging tea. It's far too early for tea. How may I be of service? You can tell me why you tried to evade my pursuit just now. I'm not in the habit of being followed. If there's any following to be done, I'd greatly prefer to be the one doing it. And why were you watching me when I was last with Ronnie Devereux? I had business in a vicinity pursuant to the inquest into Mr Gerald Wade's death. Do you just have fun doing this? Because it looks like you're having a very good time. What are you saying? I think you're enjoying yourself. Oh, good. I'm good. Bit of respect, man. No, I am, of course. Of course, it's great. No, of course. I'm only effing with you. Was the moustache real? It was not real. It's a good moustache. It's a very... No, honestly, the makeup and hair departments, the costume department, they played a blinder. It's beautiful. And no, you're absolutely right. It's fun. It really is good fun. Because also, you know, my character gets, in a later point, to do the classic Agatha Christie thing of being in a stately home drawing room, and doing that, I expect you're wondering why I've called you all here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And going through who's a murderer. The classic thing of sort of English detective novels. And it's a lot of fun. You get to sort of... Sometimes in your working life, you get to do things you think, oh, this is just a lot. You know, this is truly what I would be doing arsing about at school, you know, and someone's asking me to do it for money. Well, you can see Martin as Superintendent Baffdell in Agatha Christie's Seven Dials on Netflix now. The artist recently released her second album, The Art of Loving, which topped the UK charts. Here performing So Easy to Fall in Love, it is Olivia Deen. I could be the world to you, the missing piece That extra sentimental kind of chemistry Some people make it hard with me, that isn't the case Cause I make it so easy to fall in love So come give me a call And we'll fall into us I'm the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life One little heart would agree It's so easy to fall in love with The way I do my hair The way I make you laugh The way we like to share A walk in Central Park I could be fresh air I might be the girl of your dreams There's no need to hide if you're into me Cause I'm into you quite intimately And maybe one night could turn into three Well, I'm down to see Cause I make it so easy to fall in love So come give me a call And we'll fall into us I'm the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life One little heart would agree It's so easy to fall in love with me Me, me It's so easy It's so easy to fall in love So come give me a call And we'll fall into us I'm the perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life One little heart would agree It's so easy to fall in love with me Do you know what I mean? I like you. That voice is just so beautiful. Thank you. Gorgeous. To hear it live is amazing. And when I see you do a performance like that, and I see you do these shows all over the world, big TV shows and stuff, you seem so confident and happy. But that is not who you originally were. No, I was a very shy child. Sort of like very closed introverted. First gig I ever did, I think I was like eight years old and I had my back to the audience. It was a competition. I went back to the audience and I sang Tomorrow from Annie and I cried the whole way through. I came second place. Oh, well done. So I've come a long way. You probably lost points for stagecraft. Yes. You're back to the audience. Yes. So listen, that is from your current album, The Art of Loving. There it is. A thing of beauty. An album already. Well done. Congratulations. And you've got some very starry feedback. Do you know the phone call I'm talking about? Elton John. Oh, yeah, yeah. He loves the phone. Oh, have you had Elton on the road? No, I'm just saying I wouldn't have picked up. Srelton again. Yeah, I know I'm really good in adolescence. But you did pick up. I did pick up. Well, sort of. I was on a camping trip in Wales, in Pembrokeshire, and I was cooking sausage and beans on a little gas stove. And someone from my team said, you might get a phone call from Elton John today. And I said, gosh. And then it rang and it was a FaceTime. I said, no. And then I was like, oh no, I should have picked it up. And then I was like, I've missed it. And then he called me back and he just said, you know, I'm really proud of you. And it looks like you've worked really hard and you're ready now. And I just said, thank you. And then I collapsed on the floor. How did he get your number? Well, he has everybody's number. Not mine. He will. But also what I love is that some of these guys are the same musicians you were working with when you started. Yes, like I've known Finn and Dan, and I guess sort of most of these people since I was 17. I think we've got a picture of you and Dan busking. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? And now you're setting out Six Nights at the O2. The paper in the box says, raising money to put on our own gig. And a couple of pennies. Were you doing your own stuff then? Were you doing covers? We were in school then. So we were kind of raising money for like a show we were going to put on at school. Oh, covers. Yeah, yeah. Dan was telling me, he reminded me, we looked up best earners that day to sort of see what does well. I can't really remember. I remember doing a lot of Sam Smith. That did really well. Well, look at you now. Thank you so much for that performance. Thank you. Oh, no, I know what I need to say. We said congratulations, because album Grammy nomination. Yeah. And we've just heard four MoBo nominations announced this morning. I know. Exciting. Yeah, it's a bit made up, baby. And also, I didn't know. So the MoBos have kind of expanded now. So they were afforded to Europe for a MoBo. Your guys just told me. I didn't know. I thought it was just music. I just found out right back there. You're nominated. And then Ashley Waters and Stephen Graham, they're nominated for adolescence. And you, last summer, you got the MoBo Paving the Way. Oh, yeah. Do you remember that? There it is, Paving the Way. That's my old college. That's the college that I did a two-year diploma in performing arts. Oh, right. And yeah, they gave me this plaque. Is that there forever now? Yeah. I've been walking on it every day. I'm like, oh, it should be here. Yeah, we'll be back power washing it. Well, listen, when are the Grammys? In a couple weeks. Yeah. Keep your fingers crossed for me, guys. You're very close. I visited the big red chair. Who have we got? Hello. Hi, what's your name? Khalifa. And where are you from, Khalifa? I'm from Bournemouth. Bournemouth, lovely. And what do you do in Bournemouth? I'm a conference production manager, Graham. Finally, a conference production manager. I can't tell you how long I've waited. Off you go with your story. So I used to live in Turkey with my Turkish wife. She was my girlfriend at the time of this story. And when I first brought her to the UK to meet my family, we were staying with my grandmother. The very first night, we went out together. We had cocktails with friends. We had a great night, but we're feeling slightly worse for wear the following morning. I hadn't had English breakfast for a long time, so I started to cook bacon and sausages in the morning. And my girlfriend, she was a vegetarian, so the smell of cooking pork wasn't quite to her taste. And she started to feel very ill. So this is how she left the kitchen to go outside to get some air. My nan wakes up and goes to the kitchen, sees my girlfriend. This is the first time she's met her, and sees her putting her fingers down her throat to be sick. She's vomiting all over my nan's pristine lawn. Not a great first impression, but it gets worse, because the following day, my girlfriend was describing this story to my mother and my sister. And in her slightly broken English at the time, she said that she was so hungover that she had to go into my nan's garden to finger herself. If you want to share yourself or tell your story, you can contact us via website at this very address. Please say a huge thank you to all of our guests tonight. Olivia Dean! And the Emmy-winning actor, Claire Foy. Musician and Stranger Things star, Joe Keery. And top TV twosome, Ant Unterdek. I'll see you then. Good night, everybody. Bye-bye.